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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. A. A. Hamilton exhibited a series of botanical specimens 

 of interest, including : — 



Dodoncea pinnata, Sm. — Hawkesbury River (W. Forsyth and 

 A. A. Hamilton; 4th July, 1897). Both the Flora Australiensis 

 and the Handbook of the Flora of N.S. Wales describe the male 

 plant only, mentioning that the female plant with capsules had 

 not been seen. Woolls also, in his " Contributions to the Flora 

 of Australia " (p. 133), mentions that he had once collected a 

 pinnate variety of Dodonoea near Hunter's Hill, which he was 

 inclined to regard as one of the pinnate series of the genus; but 

 as he had never been able to find another similar shrub subse- 

 quently, he was satisfied with Baron von Mueller's reference thereof 

 to D. viscosa. Specimens of the female plant with capsules 

 from the Hawkesbury are also in the Botanical Gardens Her- 

 barium (Mr. J. L. Boorman; November, 1897) and Erskine Creek, 

 Nepean River (Mr. J. H. Maiden; September, 1888). 



Panicum obseptum, Trin. — Centennial Park (May 19th, 1901; 

 A. A. Hamilton). This grass is recorded in the Flora Australien- 

 sis from Port Jackson and Richmond (Woolls). Bentham states 

 that he had not seen the specimen from Port Jackson forwarded 

 by Trinius to Lindley. A specimen in the National Herbarium 

 is from Richmond (Coll. Woolls). There are several patches of 

 this grass on the margin of one of the ponds in the Centennial 

 Park. 



Cyperas tetraphyllus, R.Br.— Lily Vale (May 24th, 1899; A. A. 

 Hamilton). Recorded in the Flora Australiensis from Queens- 

 land, south to Newcastle; collected at the latter place by Dr. 

 Leichhardt: and in the Handbook of the Flora of N.S. Wales, 

 Hunter River to Queensland. 



Lomaria capensis, Willd. — Kogarah Bay (A. A. Hamilton ; 

 June 3rd, 1901). The pinnae of both the fertile and the sterile 

 fronds are abnormally lobed, and over four feet in length. 



